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Comisión de Las Lágrimas / The Commission of Tears

          
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El cántico desgarrador de una mujer torturada es uno de los episodios más conocidos de la historia de Angola. Esa mujer era comandante del batallón femenino del MPLA y fue arrestada, torturada y finalmente asesinada a raíz de los terribles acontecimientos que siguieron al golpe de Estado de mayo de 1977. Cuentan que mientras la torturaban no dejó de cantar un solo instante. António Lobo Antunes se inspira en este sobrecogedor suceso para contar la historia de Cristina, ingresada en una clínica psiquiátrica de Lisboa en la actualidad. En su tormentoso y desbocado torrente de recuerdos, diálogos y episodios traumáticos, Cristina rememora su temprana infancia en África, al tiempo que en el interior de su cabeza se entretejen las voces de su madre, una emigrante portuguesa blanca que ejerció de corista en Angola, y de su padre, ex sacerdote de raza negra y uno de los torturadores de la tristemente llamada «Comisión de las Lágrimas». Cada nueva novela de Lobo Antunes es un acontecimiento literario, una obra maestra ineludible, y Comisión de las Lágrimas no es una excepción. En ella el autor portugués se sumerge de lleno en un mundo caótico donde la realidad y la fantasía, los sueños y las alucinaciones, las verdades y las mentiras se mezclan hasta reconstruir el retrato de un país fracturado por la guerra. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The heartbreaking song of a tortured woman is one of the most well known chapters in the history of Angola. That woman was the commander of a women's battalion in the MPLA and was arrested, tortured, and finally killed as a result of the terrible events that followed the coup d'état in May of 1977. They say that while she was tortured, she didn't stop singing, even momentarily. António Lobo Antunes is inspired by this shocking incident to tell the story of Cristina, admitted into a psychiatric clinic in Lisbon in the present day. In her tempestuous and out-of-control torrent of memories, dialogues, and traumatic episodes, Cristina recalls her early childhood in Africa, while her inner monologue is haunted by the voices of her mother, a white Portuguese emigrant who was a singer in Angola, and her father, a black ex-priest and one of the torturers in what was sadly called "The Commission of Tears." Each new novel by Lobo Antunes is a literary event, an inescapable masterpiece, and The Commission of Tears is no exception. In it, the Portuguese author fully immerses himself in a chaotic world where reality and fantasy, dreams and hallucinations, truths and lies mix to reconstruct the portrait of a world fractured by war.
About the Author: Antonio Lobo Antunes nacio en Lisboa en 1942. Tras estudiar la carrera de Medicina, sirvio en el ejercito portugues durante la guerra de Angola. Su experiencia vital durante ese periodo marco su destino y su posterior carrera. Tras su regreso a Lisboa, y despues de abandonar la profesion de psiquiatra, Lobo Antunes se dedico a desarrollar una carrera literaria de extraordinaria brillantez y ambicion. Es considerado por muchos criticos como uno de los escritores vivos mas importantes, ademas de ser uno de los mas firmes candidatos a la obtencion del Premio Nobel de Literatura. Su obra ha sido galardonada con el Premio Rosalia de Castro del PEN Club gallego, el Premio de Literatura Europea del Estado austriaco, el Jerusalen en 2004, el Camoes (el principal galardon en lengua portuguesa) en 2007 y el FIL de Literatura en Lenguas Romances en 2008. En su vasta obra destacan titulos como Buenas tardes a las cosas de aqui abajo (2004), Yo he de amar una piedra (2005), Ayer no te vi en Babilonia (2007), Mi nombre es Legion (2009), El archipielago del insomnio (2010), Que caballos son aquellos que hacen sombre en el mar? (2012), Tercer libro de cronicas (2013), Sobre los rios que van (2014) y Comision de las lagrimas (2015), todos ellos publicados en Literatura Random House.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788439730170
  • Publisher: Literatura Random House
  • Publisher Imprint: Literatura Random House
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Width: 135 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8439730179
  • Publisher Date: 26 Jan 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Series Title: Spanish
  • Weight: 430 gr


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